Re: looking for info ref OLD computer langauges

"W. Craig Trader" <ct7@mitre.org>
24 Sep 1997 22:25:07 -0400

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From: "W. Craig Trader" <ct7@mitre.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Sep 1997 22:25:07 -0400
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
References: 97-09-047 97-09-070
Keywords: history

Kevin B. Smith wrote:
[ PLX was a PL/I like system programming language at IBM ages ago. }


Pr1me used a variant of PL/1 called PL/P to write most of Primos,
starting at Primos 17.X. PL/P was basically PL/1 with all of the
I/O handling stripped out in favor of using a C-style I/O library.


The PL/P compiler was both fast and efficient, and a massive
improvement over Pr1me's previous system's programming language:
Fortran IV ... <shudder!> Of course, Pr1me and Primos have both
gone the way of the dodo (with the exception of a few remaining
legacy systems).


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W. Craig Trader, Senior Internet Engineer <ct7@mitre.org>
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